{"id":582316,"date":"2026-02-20T05:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582316\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:08:16","slug":"bryce-harper-shouts-out-new-york-mets-for-making-one-significant-move-during-mlb-offseason-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/582316\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper shouts out New York Mets for making one significant move during MLB offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/philadelphia-phillies\/news\/bryce-harper-shouts-out-mets-significant-move-mlb-offseason\/7f3149b840d12d534cdc3ad4?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bryce Harper shouts out New York Mets for making one significant move during MLB offseason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bryce Harper shouts out New York Mets for making one significant move during MLB offseason<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Harper understands the expectations that come with playing in Philadelphia, and he\u2019s never been one to shy away from the difficulties, even while admitting that teams around the division are very good.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the upcoming season and the race at the top of the National League East, the Phillies&#8217; superstar had a lot to say about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Mets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, we\u2019re expected to win the [NL] East,\u201d Harper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/phillies-open-spring-training-with-world-series-expectations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a>, per Todd Zolecki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it\u2019s that every single year. I\u2019m not saying we\u2019re going to, but we\u2019re expected to do that. I want to. This team wants to. Obviously, the Mets got better, getting Freddy Peralta and a couple other guys on that club. The Braves are going to be really good again this year, getting a lot of their guys back. I feel like the East is a juggernaut. We\u2019ve just got to play our game and understand we\u2019re a really good team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As things stand, it\u2019s tough to say who is better between Philadelphia and New York. The Mets have improved but they\u2019re also coming off a tough year.<\/p>\n<p>The Phillies didn\u2019t do a whole lot during the offseason and will be looking for youngsters and some veterans coming off injuries to do what they\u2019ve done in their careers.<\/p>\n<p>If the Phillies don\u2019t win this year, they\u2019ll likely have to make some changes.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Harper shouts out New York Mets for making one significant move during MLB offseason originally appeared on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,1207,753,101,4,9258,1690,61,2548,4203,144,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-582316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-bryce-harper","10":"tag-freddy-peralta","11":"tag-mets","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-national-league-east","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-mets","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkmets","18":"tag-philadelphia","19":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116101234945112572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}